Assessing household climate vulnerability through behavioral decision science and remote sensing
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Climate change has already adversely impacted people and nature, and is projected to continue to do so. However, not everyone who is equally exposed to a hazard is equally affected by it. To mitigate the impacts of climate hazards on communities and individuals, it is crucial to understand who is vulnerable to these hazards, and what it is that makes them vulnerable. In this dissertation I contribute to understanding of household climate vulnerability by connecting different methods of inquiry across vastly different fields from behavioral decision science to remote sensing. In Chapter 2, I explore the impacts, protective behaviors, and barriers and facilitators to protective action against household rainwater intrusion in the San Francisco Bay Area through a qualitative interview study. I specifically focus on top-down rainwater intrusion (i.e., entering through the roof or walls), an overlooked form of rainwater intrusion. In Chapter 3, I further this work through a quantitative survey study in both California and the U.S. Midwest, and include ground-up flooding. In Chapter 4, I return focus to the San Francisco Bay Area and develop a deep learning algorithm using remotely sensed imagery to show that blue roof tarps, used in the area as semi-permanent fixtures to reduce roof leakage, can serve as a proxy for poor-quality housing.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2023; ©2023 |
| Publication date | 2023; 2023 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Velterop, Emma Mary Louise |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Suckale, Jenny |
| Degree supervisor | Wong-Parodi, Gabrielle |
| Thesis advisor | Suckale, Jenny |
| Thesis advisor | Wong-Parodi, Gabrielle |
| Thesis advisor | Ardoin, Nicole |
| Thesis advisor | Matson, Pamela |
| Degree committee member | Ardoin, Nicole |
| Degree committee member | Matson, Pamela |
| Associated with | Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Earth System Science |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Emma Velterop. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Earth System Science. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2023. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/np101nw4440 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2023 by Emma Mary Louise Velterop
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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